666 online: the best of 2012

666 ABC Canberra celebrates 60 years of broadcasting in the national capital, but content at 666 travels far further than the AM band delivers it, with programming both on Digital radio and streamed though our website, as well as all the great web features we publish each year.

Moving picture radio

Video storytelling is one way we cover Canberra, and here are a few of the best from this year:

Each week Alex Sloan holds a longer conversation with some of the more fascinating people who call the capital home, and if they're really interesting she'll let them in the studio even if they are out-of-towners.

Rhodanthe Lipsett has been involved in midwifery for 65 years, most of those in Canberra, and over a long conversation she told Alex about the work she's doing into her 90s to support Indigenous midwives.

A couple of generals popped in, Head of the Defence Force, General David Hurleywanted to be an archaeologist when he was young, and retired General , John Cantwell, once in charge of Australian Forces in Afghanistan, told Alex of the heartbreak of losing ten soldiers.

The Australian War Memorial holds a huge collection and Dianne Rutherford told Louise Maher about the Supermarine Walrus, an amphibious plane which was lost in 1940; the gallery holds an engine cowling that was souvenired during the second world war - the story it tells is fantastic.

You also put your best foot forward, contributing to our interactive walking map, a great resource if you find yourself with a little spare time - there are walks as close as your nearest nature park, and as far afield as you dare.

For some in the local region the year has been tumultuous, starting with a weather event that affected a large part of NSW.

Locally, the Queanbeyan river flooded and, while no lives were lost, there were plenty of business and residents in the town centre who were affected, while major rainfall in the catchment put the Cotter Dam building site under severe pressure.

Another dramatic series of events that had an Effect on the local music community in particular was the reorganisation of the ANU's Canberra School of Music faculty and courses. 666 Afternoons in particular took a long and regular look at what unfolded through the year.

Canberra is in the business of government, and in 2012 it was the turn of the Legislative Assembly to go once again to the people. 666 Breakfast took their show on the road, broadcasting live from Gungahlin, South Canberra and Tuggeranong on election eve as the candidates did their best to persuade voters of their intentions.